Kerala Assembly enters the
Golden Jubilee year in April 2006.
Here are some of the records as on April 27 (49th anniversary
of the
first session).

The Assembly that had the
longest
tenure

Fourth Kerala
Legislative Assembly (1970-77)

The Assembly that had the shortest
tenure

Sixth Kerala Legislative Assembly
(1980-82)

The Longest serving Member of the
Assembly

K. R. Gouri Amma

The Member who served for the
shortest term

C. Haridas (Ten days in February,
1980)

The Member who got the highest
margin of votes

P. Jayarajan, (45,
865
votes in the bye-election of 2005)

The Member who got the lowest margin
of votes

A. A. Azeez (5 votes in 2001 as per
court
verdict)

The Cabinet that had the longest
tenure

C. Achutha Menon Ministry (1970-77)

The Cabinet that had the shortest
tenure

K. Karunakaran Ministry (March- April
1977)

The Chief Minister who served for the
longest period

E. K. Nayanar

The Chief Minister who served
for
the shortest period

C. H. Mohammed Koya
(October- November, 1979)

The Minister who served for the
longest
period.

K. M. Mani

The Minister who served for the
shortest
period

M. P. Veerendra Kumar (April 1987-
five days)

The Speaker who served for the
longest period

Vakkom B. Purushothaman

The Speaker who could complete a full
term

M. Vijayakumar

The Speaker who served for the
shortest
period

A. C. Jose (February – June 1982)

The Member who served in the maximum
number
of Assemblies

K. R. Gouri (12 Assemblies since
1952).

The Member who has been elected from
the
same constituency for the maximum number of times

K. M. Mani (Ten
times
since 1965 from Palai Constituency)

The Finance Minister who presented
the
maximum number of Budgets

K. M. Mani (Eight
Budgets)

The (only) member who has been
elected to the Assembly unopposed

M. Umesh Rao from
Manjeswar in 1957

The eldest Member to serve in
the
Assembly

K. R. Gouri Amma (turned 86 on
July
14, 2005)

The youngest Member to enter
into
the portals
of the House

R. Balakrishna Pillai at the age of
25 in
1960

The Anglo-Indian Member who served
for the
longest period

Stephen Padua

The longest session

The First session
in
1959 of First
Kerala Legislative Assembly - 72 days

The shortest Sessions

(1) Tenth Session
of
the Ninth KLA- one day (May 26, 1994).
(2) Ninth Session of the Eleventh KLA- one day (September
16, 2004)
(3) Tenth Session of the Eleventh KLA - one day (December
1, 2004)
(4) Thirteenth Session of the Eleventh KLA- one day
(November 21, 2005)

The longest sitting

The sitting held
on
December 12, 1987 during the Third Session of the Eighth
Kerala
Legislative Assembly - it commenced at 8.30 am on December
12 and
continued up to 4.35 AM on December 13.

The shortest sitting

The sitting held on October 8, 1979
­two
minutes.

The year in which, though
elections
were held, the
Assembly could not formally be constituted

1965

Ministry which served the
longest
term

C.Achutha Menon Ministry
(1970-77)

Ministry which served the
shortest
term

K.Karunakaran Ministry (March
25-
April 25, 1977)

Minister who has served for the
longest period

K. M. Mani

Minister who has served for the
shortest period

M. P. Veerendra Kumar

Minister who was not a Member
of the
House and never faced the Assembly

K. Muraleedharan (son of K.
Karunakaran).

Updates: Kerala Congress leader K. M. Mani became the
longest serving member
of the Assembly on July 13, 2010, surpassing the record of K. R.
Gouri--
15544 days. (Gouri had a 1130 days' tenure as legislator in the
Travancore-Cochin Assembly which is not included.)

Mani has been winning from the Palai Assembly constituency
continuously (13 times with victory in 2016) since the formation
of the
constituency in 1964. The borders of the constituency have changed
for
the 2011 elections following fresh delimitation.

Eight-seven year old Chief Minister V. S. Achuthanandan became
the
eldest member to serve the Assembly on August 18, 2010, again
breaking
the record of K. R. Gouri who was 87 years old when the tenure of
11th
Kerala Legilsative Assembly, to which she was a member, ended on
May
12, 2006.

K. Radhakrishnan became the second Speaker to complete the full
term
in 2011.

Tailpiece: M. Umesh Rao (independent) was the first
candidate to be elected to the Kerala Assembly, having been
elected unopposed from Manjeswaram to the First Kerala Assembly in
1957. He still holds the record of being the only member to be
elected unopposed to the Assembly. Officially, Rosamma Punnoose
was the first member to be sworn in. She took the oath as pro-tem
Speaker on April 10, 1957.